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A study of Hindu death rituals and the sacred specialists who perform them in the Indian city of Banaras.
Dead in Banaras
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The work is an anthropological analysis of death and the dead, which attempts a significant reworking of the idea of death that is prevalent in Hinduism.
The City of Good Death
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Authors: Priyanka Champaneri
Categories: Fiction
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Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras,
To Die in Benares
Language: en
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Authors: K. Madavane
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-20 - Publisher: Pan Macmillan

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In seven grim, macabre and sometimes darkly comic tales, Madavane traces France’s forgotten colonial presence, playfully reinterprets Hindu myths and recounts
The Twice-born
Language: en
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Authors: Aatish Taseer
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-26 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, he was eighteen, the Westernized child of an Indian journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised among the intellectu